Background Stretch and scale in CSS 100%

Background Stretch and scale in CSS is what you will need to do in responsive html slicing all of time. My situation happen all of times so that I share you this way to help you and remind me when I need it.

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The key and the magic to show background of a css layer in 100% scale is background-size. Just use it like this

To preserve the aspect ratio of the image you should use “background-size: cover;” or “background-size: contain;”.

Scaling an image with CSS is not quite possible, but a similar effect can be achieved in the following manner, though.

Use this html:

with the following CSS:

and you should be done!

In order to scale the image to be “full bleed” and maintain the aspect ratio, you can do this instead:

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/376253/stretch-and-scale-css-background

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